Take Payments Easily with Jetpack’s Simple Payment Button

No matter what you use your Jetpack-powered site for, you want it to be successful — and profitable. But making money from your site has traditionally been a challenge if you don’t have the time to set up an online store.

Well, now it’s easier to take payments for your products, services, or charity. Starting today, Jetpack Premium and Professional customers can add a Simple Payment Button to any post or page, and start taking payments with PayPal in just a few clicks.

Add a Simple Payment Button to any post or page in a few quick steps.

To add a Simple Payment Button to your site, you’ll first need to add or edit a post or page in the WordPress.com Visual Editor. Click the drop-down arrow on the left, then choose Add Payment Button.

On the new screen that appears, you’ll be asked to add details for what you’re selling, an image (if you choose to include one), price and preferred currency, and finally the email address for your PayPal account (where the money will be sent).

You can add as much or as little information as you like here — it all depends on what you’re selling.

You can also allow customers to purchase more than one of this product — for example, if you’re selling handmade goods or food. Just toggle on Allow people to buy more than one item at a time to make it happen.

When you’re finished, click Insert and the button will appear on your post or page. Don’t forget to save your changes!

Customers can use Simple Payment Buttons with a credit card, debit card, or their PayPal balance. They don’t have to have PayPal to pay you — however, you will need an account to have your payments deposited into your bank account. Sign up here to get started.

You can use Simple Payment Buttons for anything you like: to sell physical products, accept donations for a charity, or take payments for appointments online. You can also add multiple buttons to a single post or page, or use the same button in multiple locations.

Just chatted with Paypal. Their system would not report individual purchase/donations (name, address, date, amount, specific purpose/product). This would have to be provided by the web site form. Does Jetpack provide this capability? Is it easily auditable? I can imagine someone slipping in a bit of code to skim .1% of every transaction. Thanks!

Can I use this payment service in wordpress.com blog? I have a photography blog https://tareqsalahuddin.wordpress.com which I was not updating for a couple of years. If this is possible, I’d rethink about selling photos on my blog.

Howdy Jere, if you wanted to use a separate PayPal account to receive donations for different organizations, purposes, etc. you could do so.

You’re able to designate the email that receives the payments (or donations) when you add a simple payment button to your post or page, so you could use a different email/account during that step to make them go to different places and keep them separated.

Does this help? If you’re thinking of something else, please give our support team a shout and we’ll see if we can come up with a good solution for you!

Hi Pothi! Right now the Simple Payment Button only supports one-time, non-recurring payments. For subscription payments, you could use WooCommerce and the PayPal Payments Standard option (or something similar).

However, it’s not currently possible to grant someone access to a file based on if they’ve paid via the Simple Payment button or not. You’d need to manually send it to every person who makes a purchase.

If you’re looking for something more powerful than that, I’d suggest WooCommerce:

Jetpack Premium and WordPress.com Premium are separate plans. Jetpack plans can only be purchased for self-hosted sites with Jetpack installed, and WordPress.com plans are only for sites on our WordPress.com platform.

Seems like a great feature. But, to confirm, if I am either selling an item or asking for a donation, say, $100, the person making the payment will pay exactly $100 and I will then get also exactly $100 deposited into my Paypal account?

If this is correct, it seems ‘too good to be true’. Hence the question.

Two other comments/questions :

First, I saw mention that not much information is being passed through – how will I know how much I am receiving from each person sending in a payment and what the payment will be for?

Second, to lend my voice to others already expressed, while Paypal is great, there is sadly a very significant community of people who hate it and refuse to use it. A more neutral ‘white label’ type payment processor such as Stripe has a great deal of appeal so as to offer a solution to the Paypal-haters out there.

> if I am either selling an item or asking for a donation, say, $100, the person making the payment will pay exactly $100 and I will then get also exactly $100 deposited into my Paypal account?

We do not charge any fees on these transactions. I’m not sure if PayPal themselves will charge you a fee or not, since I don’t really use their service myself. That would be a question for their support folks I imagine.

> how will I know how much I am receiving from each person sending in a payment and what the payment will be for?

For every purchase, PayPal will send you a confirmation email with the customer or donor’s information. You will also receive an email from Jetpack when a purchase is completed, as well as a monthly report for all your Simple Payment buttons.

> A more neutral ‘white label’ type payment processor such as Stripe has a great deal of appeal

Adding more payment processors is definitely something that we’re looking into, as I mentioned above. 🙂

WooCommerce does work great, we agree! We just think that by adding this simple payment button to Jetpack, we can make selling products extremely easy for those people who don’t need the full suite of WooCommerce features. 🙂

If you have only one button style available, why to say ““Pay with PayPal”? I would use it for donations and to have “Pay with ..” is no good at all for me. Just a simple button that says “PayPal” would be much, much more useful.

Very good news. A question; I m living in Turkey and PayPal stopped giving service to Turkey.
Should I have a PayPal account? Are there any other alternative system in order to get my payouts into my Turkish bank account?

It’s a great start – I’d love to move fully into the wp ecosystem for taking payments – but it’s far too early to pay a premium (Premium Jetpack) for only half a service. Send me another email when you have stripe to go with paypal…

Woocommerce is not yet a ‚friendly‘ Solution if you’re selling subscriptions – at least it doesn’t look friendly. I use a third party service, but there are rightly always questions about third-party solutions vs a core functionality from wp or automattic…

Will this button and function soon be available for WordPress.org-users as well or only for wordpress.com-users?
I have a self-hosted WordPress with Jetpack as a plugin. Couldn’t find anything in your comments. Every time you just say wordpress.com-editor and paid membership. Got that. But any plans for self-hosted WordPress users?